Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]

Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.

The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time read more

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a read more

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that read more

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt

Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no read more

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house